Has WSJ Proven GOP Collusion With Foreign Hacker?

Oh , crap. Now you have done it. Brought actual facts and logic into one of the OPs threads.... With 2 posts even.

If a person stating "Guccifer 2.0 is not Russian" qualifies as "actual facts and logic" to you, then here you go:

Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian intelligence front for Russian hackers. Russian hackes hacked the DNC, DCCC and John Podesta's email. The Russians provided
WikiLeaks with the stolen material and members of Trump's campaign colluded with them.

There you go — I stated it all matter-of-factly, therefore by your standards, it must be true. Case closed. Can't argue with "actual facts and
logic" like that, can you?

I do want to say, that although I don't feel this story proves Russian collusion at all, let alone with anyone on Trumps team, it seems to me that
this Nevins character ought to face some consequences.

He seems to be knowingly asking for private info.

Unfortunately I can't read the article so maybe you can help me Ante.

How did he get in contact with G2? How did he know G2 had these docs?

And I feel he should damn well be investigated to find out the answers to these questions.

Nevin's reached out to Guccifer 2.0 on Twitter. The WSJ had copies of the exchanges which were confirmed by Nevins. It's not clear from the article
where they got the screenshots of the Twitter DMs (direct messages).

It appears that Mr. Nevins didn't know exactly what Guccifer 2.0 had. From the article:

Learning that hacker “Guccifer 2.0” had tapped into a Democratic committee that helps House candidates, Mr. Nevins wrote to the hacker to
say: “Feel free to send any Florida based information.”

“I just threw an arrow in the dark,” Mr. Nevins said in an interview,
adding he set up a Dropbox account so whoever was using the Guccifer 2.0 name could send large amounts of material. Later, going through what the
hacker sent as someone who “actually knows what some of these documents mean,” the GOP consultant said he “realized it was a lot more than even
Guccifer knew that he had.”

I cannot believe that as of the writing of the article, according to Nevins, he had not been contacted by any investigators. That's just unreal to
me.

Also, the campaign of Rep. Brian Mast should be investigated. A campaign consultant is flat out claiming that he used stolen data to make decisions
for the campaign. I don't understand how this isn't a bigger deal other than WSJ published it behind a pay wall in the middle of a news cycle in
overdrive.

I'd be interested to know if Mr. Mast's opponent, the Floriday Democratic Party, the DNC/DCCC/whomever owned the data, etc have contacted the proper
authorities since its publication.

The flaw in your response is Russia was sanctioned for its invasion and occupation of Ukrainian territory. The false crowdstrike report dealt with
the number of artillery pieces lost by Ukraine.

Obama placed further sanctions on the Russians over the hacking of the DNC, making it even more difficult for the new administration to touch them.
Politically now, if Trump lifts the sanctions, it's going to look bad. If there had been no mention of a DNC hack done by the Russians, perhaps the
economic sanctions could have been lifted by now.

According to statements from the White House and the Treasury Department, the government has sanctioned nine entities and individuals over their
alleged interference in the election: the GRU and the FSB, which are two Russian intelligence services; four individual officers of the GRU; and three
companies that provided material support to the GRU's
operations.

Trump wasn't joking. He was asking for illegally obtained information to use against Hillary.
At that time no one thought trump had a snowflakes chance in hell of winning including trump and he needed all the dirt he could come up with to win.
At this point he didn't know that the FBI would be giving him a great big boost days before the election.

Trump wasn't joking. He was asking for illegally obtained information to use against Hillary.
At that time no one thought trump had a snowflakes chance in hell of winning including trump and he needed all the dirt he could come up with to win.
At this point he didn't know that the FBI would be giving him a great big boost days before the election.

I think the move by the FBI to announce no charges against Clinton in July, and then announce they were reopening he investigation with weiners
underage issue and the newly discovered emails on his laptop and then announcing days prior to the election nothing new was found was meant to help
Clinton win.

I think it was a last minute effort to push her beyond the email issue, giving people the mindset of her innocence when they went to their polling
places.

I think that plan backfired spectacularly. I think it had the opposite effect that they were intending.

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